http://programmerpayback.com/2009/12/10/google-web-toolkit-2-0-and-silverlight/ Giving a little back to my fellow programmers Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:01:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://programmerpayback.com/2009/12/10/google-web-toolkit-2-0-and-silverlight/#comment-684 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:18:47 +0000 http://programmerpayback.com/?p=474#comment-684 Jeff, the device(s) you’re targeting is certainly a huge factor in choosing a technology to build your app in and GWT is made to target just about everything because it is just js in the end. That said, I do expect plugins like Silverlight and Flash to soon be available for any platform that reaches sufficient popularity (aside perhaps from iPhone because of Apple’s closed policies).
Re: cross browser compatibility, I’ve worked with both Silverlight and GWT and for cross browser compatibility concerns, you can’t beat the plugin because it more or less eliminates the browser from the equation. GWT has to actually create different versions of your code for each browser that it needs to support (when applicable). This is an error prone task and will never be as good as letting a single engine (a plugin) execute your code regardless of browser.

]]> http://programmerpayback.com/2009/12/10/google-web-toolkit-2-0-and-silverlight/#comment-683 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:56:39 +0000 http://programmerpayback.com/?p=474#comment-683 If you want true cross browser compatibliity, it to work with phones, linux, other browers then you’re going to want to use javascript.

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